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Highland and Scottish Step Dance resource pages

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for highland and other scottish step dancers.
I won't attempt listing other forms of scottish step dance, because I'd be sure
to miss one and offend someone. ... Okay, okay, I will list them. The scottish step dance
types I can think of at the moment are Cape Breton, Character dance, Highland dance and
Ladies' step. If your favourite isn't here, don't be offended, but drop me a mail and
get it added to the list. I am interested in it, I just don't know it.

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I don't intend to actually teach Highland dancing here - I am far from qualified to do so -
although I would be happy to collect descriptions of dances.

The Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing can be reached at S.O.B.H.D.,
Heritage House, 32 Grange Loan, Edinburgh EH9 2NR. Their web site is at
http://www.sobhd.org/.
Their Textbook, Highland Dancing, is published
by Lindsay Publications, PO Box 812, Glasgow G14 9NP, Scotland, UK. ISBN 1 8981 6901 2. It contains
Basic Positions, Basic Movements and Basic Steps, followed by descriptions of the following dances:
The Highland Fling, The Sword Dance (Gillie Chalium), Seann Truibhas, Strathspey, Highland Reel,
Basic Reel Steps and Reel of Tulloch or "Hullachan".